St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-17

rom the common people. Even Christ
came from the common people, ana Sc
aenceforth in the history of the wOrlG
should it be dishonorable for man to
sc poor. Does the getting of money
onstitute greatness. No. it does not;
and III case it did, we would now have
20 country, as you all know. Take foI
Instance, \. Il. Stewart, who instead of
,oing TO the trent when the war broke
out, staid at home and spent his time i'll
making money. 1t was simply cruel
cunning. This sort of men never had
amy sympathy for the working man.
No man should feel that when
the Worilingmen are trying to better
their condition and raise their children
10 a higher level that they are working
against the best interest of the govern
mcnt. The poor you will always have
with you. That is a settled fact. 1t is
tie SmarteSt men who come to the top.
In this free country Il man of ability has
Il chance to rise, and these efforts you
are making ROW will help educate men
and lit them for going out into the world
and making his mark. | do not believe
any laborlng man deserves property.
What he wants is an opportunity to ac-
cumulate property. Property rep
reSentS labor and security, and Il
man cannot be blamed for wanting to
accumulate it. There was never such
an opportunity as there is in the city of
Minneapolis. Nearly all your capital
lists here made their money by buying
property here early in the history of the
city, and what you laboring men want
to do is to follow their example. Some
men come To this country from places
from where they have been terribly OPP
pressed, and they look upon every kind
OF government as an enemy. But to de-
stroy propertyiS to bring back barbarSm.
1t takes 10000 acres of land to support
one savage, but 10000 civilized people
can live and thrive on the same land.
There is nothing more low and deSpic-
able than savage life. 1t only brings
WretchedneSs and misery. If you were
to destroy this complex civilization
nine-tenthS of the people now here
would have to go to the wall. There
would be nothing for our tradeSmen to
do. We want to preserve our civiliZa-
ton. but we
DO NOT WANT ANY OPPRESSION.
The many should be benetitad and not
the few. Why is it sometimes you la
boring men fail in your endeavors to
better your condition? 1t is because
when you decide that you cannot live on
81 day along comes Il crowd of men
VIM VIII w WIN ioi - N b'ty, anu IL ypu
prevent them public opinion turns
against you. These men come from
Europe, where most damnable system
OF persecution exists, and the poor men
are obliged to flock across the waters to
gain living. The root of the whole
trouble is that the deSpotiSm across the
water is grinding men down to
the level of mere brutes, and the
way to abolish it is to abolish the kings
and rulers of the old country. You
can't keep these men away from this
country. for if you do public opinion
condemns you, says you are refusing to
let your fellow men live. If had my
way the president of the United States
would denOunce in every message to
congress the system of despotiSm which
exists across the water. This powerful
engine of public opinion is not TO be de-
SpiSed. Take for instance Charles
Parnell. The cight-hour move
ment is IL necessity. Long
hours have been tried and have
proved a failure, and it must eventually
come TO eight hours i'll this country.
There is only so much vitality in Il man.
and if all this is exhausted by manual
labor there is none left for mental effort.
If the common people propose to rule
this country as they should do they
should not lose all their vitality by hard
work. Draw the line and say: Eight
hours for work, eight hours for Sleep.and
eight hours for information and recrea
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